You know, I'm starting to feel a little silly about the [Spoilers] thing--I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the last people to read anything I talk about, anyway!
- What the heck is wrong with Donna Troy? Okay, Kyle didn't like Jason to start with, but Donna had been giving him the benefit of the doubt thus far. And now she and Kyle are bonding by making nasty comments about him? My guess is that her reaction had more to do with Jason's attack on...what was his name? The green guy? But if that's the case, I'd have expected her to be more direct in her comments to Kyle--instead we get all this vague "I don't trust him" stuff. I guess I'm complaining because I've developed a certain fondness for Jason (not enough to follow him once he's out of Countdown, but still, a fondness--and I really don't know a thing about what he may have done before Countdown) and I don't think he's a bad guy, although it may well be that he's not the sort of good guy who would work well with Donna. I will say that it doesn't seem at all unlikely that Jason would pull a Batman (and not tell anyone what he's up to), and I guess it's not surprising (since presumably Batman is his main hero model?) that he wouldn't really understand why the others would have a problem with that.
I've gotten used to Kyle being kind of a jerk in this series, which is kind of odd, but I can justify it somewhat by the fact that he's been through a lot, and being thrown into something of an old situation (Donna is around and he's sort of starting from scratch in some ways with the Ion power gone) might have caused some degree of emotional regression. But Donna? She's supposed to be the mature one, isn't she? Yeah, be mad at Jason because he shot her, sock him in the jaw even, that part makes sense. Yeah, she's clearly got reason to be reevaluating her opinion of him. But the "re-Todd" and so forth, though--that just seems off.
- Piper and Trickster. I've seen a lot of commentary on this--whether Trickster's homophobia is being presented in a negative enough light, and so forth. I can't really comment on that, I suppose, but I've certainly had the experience of thinking I knew someone and finding out later that they really were not the sort of person I thought they were, and that seems to be happening between these two--Piper seems to have taken a "don't ask, don't tell" position within the villain community, so he clearly presumes that there will be people who won't approve, but he seemed really surprised at just how homophobic Trickster has turned out to be. Not that Trickster was a good friend, but they seemed like colleagues who worked well together. It's always disenheartening when you learn that someone you thought reasonably well of isn't what you thought--when you learn that they're racist, or homophobic, or dishonest, or whatever other thing is a deal-breaker for the relationship. That seems to be what's happening here.
- Superman Prime. I am tired of Superman Prime. That didn't take very long.
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